A Prosopographical Approach to Medieval Eurasian Nomads
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by SZTE OJS Journals (University of Szeged / Szegedi Tudományegyetem) AGUSTÍ ALEMANY A Prosopographical Approach to Medieval Eurasian Nomads AGUSTÍ ALEMANY The major prosopographical works devoted to Eurasian empires include entries relating to “per- sons from outside the frontiers” of some relevance to these historical periods (or at least men- tioned by the sources), steppe nomads among them. However, the latter are paid secondary atten- tion, since the main objective of these works is often the study of the ruling elites (“Führungsschichten”) of the aforesaid empires. This paper discusses the usefulness, viability and methodology of prosopographical research collecting biographical data about Inner Asian and, more concretely, Medieval Eurasian nomads. In the last century – and especially in the last decades – several major works have been produced, dealing with the prosopography of the Roman (PIR1), Late Roman (PLRE2), Byzantine (PBE3, PBW4, PmbZ5, PLP6, EPLBHC / ΕΠΛΒΙΠ7), Paper funded by the Research Project FFI2014-58878P (Spain). 1 Prosopographia Imperii Romani saec. I. II. III, vols. I–VIII, ed. E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen, K. Wachtel, M. Heil, W. Eck & J. Heinrichs, Berlin 1933–20152 (erste Auflage: vols. I–III, ed. E. Klebs, H. Dessau & P. de Rohden, Berlin 1897–1898). 2 The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. I A.D. 260–395, ed. A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale & J. Morris, Cambridge 1971; vols. II. A.D. 395–527 & III. A.D. 527– 641, ed. J.R. Martindale, Cambridge 1980–1992. 3 The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, vol.
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